All the Kings Horses: Part Six

And at long last, here is the full team reveal! I love these characters and I am excited for what comes next. I hope you do too.

There is a good chance that some world building and rules details will not make it into this arc due to pacing issues, so I will try to cover questions in the comments and add some information in the posts as we move through the story.

What is the class system (Spartan, Apollo, Omega, etc)?: These classifications are indicators of power source and estimated power level in Andromeda X. Here is a quick breakdown:

Spartan Class – are tech-based heroes. No manifested powers but their gear places them in range upwards of Apollo class.

Apollo Class – Metahumans with manifested X chromosome configuration. This is the “average” power-level with a bit of ebb and flow with regards to power.

Omega Class – The most powerful class of Metahuman with rare triple X chromosome manifestation. For reference, Omegas are the Wonder Woman, Thanos, and Thor-level metas.

I DO have notes for other class levels as well, but for now I am going to focus on the characters in this arc.

HOVER-TEXT: Chronodome? Disco Nova? OMG. What the fuck are you doing here, Brian? This comic has really gone down hill.

Based on context clues so far, my guess is “Spartan Class” refers to the Batman-esque heroes: those with a lot of skill or tech, but not “superpowered”. This would imply that “Apollo Class” refers to characters with at least some degree of superpower or superhuman ability.

Personally, I’m more interested to discover if there are more classifications than these, and if they somehow denote power levels.

I like to give people leeway when speaking. You can go with the original French “on root,” or the Anglicised “in rout.” I can see where someone who knows that phrase mostly from hearing it spoken in its Anglicised form, but not encountering in often in written form, will make that spelling shift. But, do NOT let me hear you say “on rout” or “in root.” I mean, those are just painful.

“en” is not pronounced “on”. It’s a nasal vocal that doesn’t exist in English, so I wouldn’t call “on” “original French”… I cannot even be sure that it was really used in France before/in 1779 (didn’t found this use of “en route” in Trevoux’s 1742 dictionnary but rather “prendre sa route à/vers”), or how it would have really been pronounced. I mean, 30% of the French language changed spelling between 1740 and 1762 reforms, and it’s only in 1835 that a regional variant decided that the whole country should write “ois” “ais” as it was pronounced /ɛ/ in this (eastern) region whereas most of the country stil pronounced some kind of /wɛ/ or even /we/… so some uncertainty could remain without problem.
Furthermore, we gave English language desport and it came back to us as sport, we gave tenetz/teneys and it came back as tennis, so we maybe shouldn’t really care about an original spelling/pronounciation of ours…

I gotta admit, while “Disco Nova” is hilariously awesome sounding (and looking!) I’m low key squeeing over Bronco’s LACK of “the most common superpower”. She’s got boobs, but they’re subtle, instead of looking like her tits should get an initiative bonus for arriving several seconds ahead of the rest of her (I’m talking about YOU, Power Girl! 😛 )

Bronco looks like most of her chest is muscle, and in a pretty obvious bruiser type, that makes me VERY happy, for some reason.

I guess I am going to be that guy, but I love that one of the guys is playing a Robot and another is playing an Ulim. What’s the point of having droids and aliens races in Star Wars if you don’t put them in good roles for the cast afterall…

“Hey guys! I just took a Weapon Focus feat!”
In what?
“IN MUSTACHE!”
How…how does that even work?
“Lemmie show you.” *twirls mustache* *all foes within 30 feet are dazed for one round* “That’s how you do it.”

I love the classification system: especially the Spartan one. It makes sense that automatons or cyborgs are labelled by something similar to the Spartoi Dragon-tooth soldiers that Cadmus sowed into the Earth. As for the Apollo classes … yeah, they do seem to be the general superhero archetype: muscular, power, and fine specimens of at least humanoid achievement.

I wonder if Superman would count as an Omega, or he is even beyond that?

I saw Disco Nova, and immediately thought it was Charlie playing him. Then I read the thing. And it made me squee to think what Brett is gonna do with that amazing character concept. He’s going to have fun with this. And friggin’ Bronco, man. That character design is TIGHT. A comic book style woman that not only out-meat’s the boys, but doesn’t have tits bigger than her head. Brian, you are the man. I love these characters.